Samsung overwatch website SamMobile
presented us with a juicy leak which firmly suggests that a "premium"
version of Samsung's Galaxy S5 flagship phone is in an advanced
development stage. It is arguably the most detailed look at the
unannounced, and previously denied device to date.

The leak begins by reinforcing the
rumors that the Galaxy S5 shipped with a 1080p display due to
production problems with the QHD-equipped version. Originally, the S5
was being prototyped with a 2K display, but this version was
abandoned in its third revision, which is pretty early in the phone's
development cycle. It took ten revisions until the S5 was given the
"okay", and seven of these had the 1080p display. This
serves to explain why the phone's last year leaks pointed towards a
QHD screen, but as the announcement date neared, a 1080p display was
to be found in all rumors.

We know that Samsung's strategy is to
develop and release a multitude of smartphones and tablets each year
in an effort to cover all available and emerging market niches in
sight. Given that, pressure from LG's upcoming G3, and how close the
company actually got to a 2K smartphone before it settled for less
riskier technology, it is entirely predictable that Samsung will find
the time and place to release the Galaxy S5 as it may have originally
intended - with a QHD display. The latest leak hints towards that,
and lots more.

For starters, the addition of a
previously unfamiliar Exynos chip is suggested in some models. This
is the Exynos 5430, which has four Cortex-A15 cores running on 2.1GHz
and four Cortex-A7 cores running on 1.5GHz, an ARM Mali GPU clocked
at 600MHz, and a display controller trained to handle the 2K
display's many additional pixels. The Exynos 5430 also has a HEVC
(high-efficiency video coding) controller that already supports up to
8K UHD video (8192x4320) playback. It also boasts a dedicated audio
encoding, decoding and processing processor that Samsung named
"Seiren".

Additionally, the international version
of the smartphone will rely on an Intel XMM7620 LTE modem for
connectivity. It will support speeds of up to 300Mbit/s downlink and
150Mbit/s uplink. This is a big win for Intel, as it marks the first
time its technology is chosen over Qualcomm's in a high-profile
smartphone. The Korean version, meanwhile, will operate with a
proprietary Samsung LTE modem, codenamed Shannon 300 (SS300).

Now, you might be asking whether all of
this goodness will reach markets outside Samsung's homeland. It's
more likely that Sammy will offer the Exynos-equipped version
exclusively to South Korea's telecoms and perhaps a handful of Asian
markets, while the rest of the world will get a Snapdragon 805-based
version. Fair enough, considering the capabilities of Qualcomm's
silicon.

The leak also contains a clue about a
high-end tablet based on the same platform as the "premium"
Galaxy S5. It will be offered in Wi-Fi, 3G, and LTE variants.

Now, we'll give you the usual advice
about taking this information with a healthy dose of NaCl. Although
there are pretty solid clues that the upcoming smartphone is indeed a
premium Galaxy S5 - such as the fact that the prototype carries the
designation "Project KQ", and the Galaxy S5 we all know was
referred to as "Project K", it could end up being a wholly
different Galaxy smartphone. What we have zero doubt with is that
Samsung is preparing to greet the LG G3's announcement by introducing
a more powerful device soon after. The LG G3 is confirmed to feature
a QHD display and top-shelf components which will make the Galaxy S5
seem so "yesterday" barely a quarter after its release. And
so will the so-called “premium” Galaxy S5 phone, by the way, but
this doesn't matter as long as it's making Samsung money.

2k, 3gigs, snap 805 is marketing for noobs
2k it is only negative
Metal for fetishists, besides it is bad for the connection and breaks the display when falling
need:
Aspherical lens in the lens (i dont know whether they are now in S5)
Remove visible modulation at medium and low brightness, as it did in the Fly IQ444 Diamond 2 Quattro, Motorola Razr HD (XT925) and LG G Flex.
(although I did not notice)
Remove all profiles except the movie mode, as at testers gray is blue, red is orange, as they specially put other profiles that have very cold tone
Anyway all image are designed for SRGB standard, and enhanced range is color distortion
It was then has turned to the ideal, competitors (sony, lg, apple, htc) 2 more years will not put isocell and OLED

OPTIONS, guy. People love options. Including options for super vividness. Just because you and I prefer movie mode doesnt mean the majority of the populace doesnt prefer "Dynamic" presets on their TVs.

May be samsung is just testing its hardware and the display tech like they had done before when gs5 rumors started apearing... media just start reporting what they presume/percieve based on their own assumptions... will be cleared when samsung will announce something theirself

Yea but assuming this is called anything other than Galaxy S something, they just shafted their "high end" users hard, like seriously shafted, like Apple level shafted. They uniformly made all previous Galaxy S models lose their appeal and high end status. At least all the Sony phones are still in the Z line, they still have the status of high end.

My guess is, the technology simply wasn't there. Combine that with Apple leaving themselves vulnerable with the 5s and 5c phones, Samsung probably just decided that the best way to make a huge dent in Apple sales was to get the GS5 out fast and then release this one just ahead of any iPhone 6, which is expected to have a 1080p display.

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